Glowy eyes/accessories and Smoke tutorial

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  • sorry for repost

  • I'm looking at this EL sheeting and i was wondering if it can be cut in almost ANY shape like, for example, a heart?

  • Hey Saeru,
    Awesome Anti-Sora costume. You may have answered this question already but I just want to ask since I'm like the only person thats not an eletrical engineer haha. What EXACTLY did you buy when you went to either "luminousfilm.com" or "el catalog"? I'm preparing to also be Anti-Sora for Comic Con 10 and the only part that IS troubling me is the eyes. So asking you because your costume is perfect. What items, accessories, tools did you exactly buy because me and a few others are debating on what to get. So if you could show me what you did 'step-by-step' that would be awesome. Thanks again Saeru!

  • At this point, the EL website no longer sells that particular set as a pre-packaged kit directly off of their website. They -do- still have the item, though - but you have to call them and specifically ask them for it. (See Sae's first post.)

    Uh, also, this is a little bit late for the second answer, but you can cut the rectangular sheet into any shape - so long as it is symmetrical (or at least exactly even surface area on both sides of the middle lighting source) - otherwise one side ends up being noticeably brighter than the other.

  • so if i do go to luminousfilm.com what specific product would you recommend me in purchasing (you can tell im one of those people that is not training or considering to be an electrical engineer lol) cause I'm looking at different catagories LED back lit, LEF front lit... etc... what product is recommended for a project like this?

  • I know this is probably a dumb question but how the heck do you see out of that stuff?

  • You can't see through the EL sheet, Saeru was blind while wearing it.

  • [QUOTE=Ani_BEE;3268860]You can't see through the EL sheet, Saeru was blind while wearing it.[/QUOTE]

    That's why it was my job to be the handler when the eyes were on. ^_^;

    The interesting thing is when the power was off, Sae -could- see through a bit via the little slit between the edge of the film and the mask - it was he fact that when the EL was lit up, the glow would be too blinding to do so...so we made it so there was an obscured pouch in the jacket hood to hold the battery accessibly to allow for a quick disconnect if necessary.

  • I'm contemplating on how to do the smoke hands free with a pull switch but is there anything like that? I want the circuit to turn on when I open a hinge/jaw.

    I can find Rocker switches, toggle switches, Pushbutton Momentary Switch and slider switches. I'm not sure what to use or how to rig it. :lost:



    I didn't take circuitry in school so I'm a noob at this stuff but Normally-Closed Momentary Switch means it's active or on and Normally-Open Momentary Switch means the circuit is turned off until you push the switch. :skidude:

  • Is it possible to make a video tutorial for the smoke part?
    Due to me not having ANY experience with wiring or batteries, all of the smoke tutorial went waaaayyyy over my head. :(